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...RIGHT AWAY we slip through the present's thin veneer and are submerged in the whole history of an object--in this case, a simple pencil. The entirety of one of the earliest of Nabokov's brief chapters is devoted to illustrating the past visible in that anonymous pencil, from the grinding of its graphite and the felling of the pine for its case to the final implement, all in a discovered second of perception...
...people who showed up at McGovern election night headquarters in Boston greeted the prospect of a long and empty night with much the same attitude they had watched the earliest returns--silence, defiance and an occasional frolie with useless horns and whistles...
...eonhardt's playing is more reserved than that of his colleague, and embodies greater concern for the larger gestures of a composition. I am reminded of the description by J.N. Forkel, Bach's earliest biographer, of the latter's style of performance...
...Bronze Age artists used a curious technique; with a tool made from hard rock, possibly quartz, they hammered or scraped groups of closely spaced small holes, 1 mm. to 5 mm. in diameter. Significantly, the most painstakingly executed samples of valley craftsmanship are found in the earliest engravings. Later artists were content with fewer and larger holes, and their work became blurred and uneven...
...been rumored for weeks, this year's winner is West German Novelist Heinrich Böll, respected man of letters, prominent leftist Roman Catholic intellectual, and among the earliest and most insistent examiners of his country's conscience since World War II. Still, the award did not escape gossip and second-guessing. The judges of Stockholm never publicly argue or explain their choice, but surely something more than art is involved...